Ecosystems Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. a relationship in which plants and animals depend upon each other
  2. 5. an organism that obtains energy by feeding off of other organisms
  3. 6. a complex interaction between organisms caused when food chains overlap
  4. 7. an organism that lives and grows by breaking down dead plants and animals
  5. 10. different populations that interact with each other in the same area
  6. 11. an organism that can make its own food
  7. 12. a specific role an organism plays in its habitat
Down
  1. 1. a consumer that eats plants AND animals
  2. 2. a living thing
  3. 4. a consumer that eats only animals
  4. 6. a straight line diagram that represents which organisms are eaten by others in an ecosystem.
  5. 8. all the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact.
  6. 9. all the members of ONE species that live within an ecosystem
  7. 13. a consumer that eats only plants